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TH»lAgggHOKgCTrOT.PRn>AYtJULY>0,Wl. OLO CHICAGO AS SEEN BY DR.GHISEY In 1862 Mayor Curtis Had • Farm at Randolph and Washington Streets. > BURIED ON THE.LAWN "Long John" Wentworth's Little Joke About Signs . ,. Over Sidewalks. Br. Charles A. P. Gsrassj. the well- known dentist, baa lived to Evanston â- one fifty years, and baa practiced hl» profession here ever since he was burned out in his Chicago office in the great fire of 1871. Previous to com- ing here he spent hit boyhood in Chi csgo. and hie reminiscences of early days there are very interesting, as told bv him in the or tide that fol- lows, to bis own words: Chicago In 1852. When i came to Chicago In May, in, I made my home temporarily wife my ancle, lames Curtly jsbo owned and lived upon the whole block bounded by Curtis, May, Randolph and Washington streets, on which was a lifts mansion, and a fine farm, raising corn, wheat and oats, also vegetables for bis large family of nine members, and a ftie dairy. This uncle was may' or of Chicago In 1847, and again In 1180. His oldest eon, James, waa a graduate of West Point, and served In the civil war on the staff of Gen. W. 8. Roseerans. Both be and I took part In the battle of Stone River, Tenn. Grave en the Lawn*----- I well remember Philo Carpenter, who owned the whole block bounded by Sangamon, Carpenter, Randolph and Washington «treets. I remember the little grave of his 5-ycnr-old daughter on his ground quite near the corner of Randolph and Sangamon streets the whits headstone with her simple name upon it. Whether the Chicago cemetery (now Lincoln park) was too fir away, or whatever reason he had to bury her there I never could And out, but many a time I stopped to look that little grave with pathetic thoughtB. After Careen- the place was rented by Dr George w. anipman, Chicago's first homoeopath, and from there was or ganlted the Chicago Foundling's home. Sam* Early Settlers Now again 1 call to talnd as though but yesterday, one of the earliest set- tiers, George Chacksfleld, who occupied a brick grocery store at the corner of Peprla and Randolph strcetB, and on the opposlto corner wee Hutchinson and Sons, soda pop factory, and on the other corner the old Eagle hotel, a two story frame, which stood there over 60 years. Then how well 1 re- csll the old brick north, west, and south aide markets, built right In the middle of the street, the one on West Randolph facing Desplalnes, and on State street fronting on Randolph, the latter cost 910*000 and was torn down IS 1858. The one on the north side was where, In the large hall above the market, the lato Dwlght L. Moody car- rled on his large Sunday school, and from there started bis evangelistic career. It was In 1858 that Chicago bought Its first steam Are engine and named It the "Long John" after the then mayor John Wentworth, elected in 1857 and again In 1800. Was S Big Men. K» was 4oag, standing 6 feet 7 Inches, one Inch taller than Abraham Lincoln. He it was who caused the common council to declare all signs projecting over the sidewalk a public nttlsance, with orders to the merchants to remove them by a certain date, but most of them took it for a Joke, and poked, fun at tho ordinance and very few compiled. So one night Long John sprung the Joke* on them kit gffr^tf; the whole police force, gad he st their bead tore them all down and piled them In a heap aa big as a small house in front of the State street market, where the owners were notified they could redeem them on payment of a small fine, and when only a few of ths best were redeemed, Che dty carted the rest off and burned Gum. But oh, didn't the owners pro- test! Mad? W«ll I should say! Nevertheless In spite of Long John's Mceatrfcitiee he made one of the best mayors Chicago ever had. The Bar Riot iber standing on the corner and Randolph streets halt whesthe beer as some now living will the atttflery. It was there that CPpt. Hunt of the later Hyde Park poMco force tost his arm fey a shot. rw^m T9ww^& wb*^, : In 1811 the first horse cars were in- tgurated. nan t rode in one of the this 8. B. and M. O. Walker eetsbllshsd a line of omar fenses, to M» S«SB «tats on Randolph west to Welch', carriage factory, cor- ner of Ann stnet Then Frank Par- zssitz put os i line to the old Bull's Heed stockyards. Those busses were • fearful thing to ride la over big cob- bio stones on a cold winter night, more especially If your anatomy waa out of "kilter." I fairly shiver now at my experience. And then those two- wheeled drays, sprlngless, which we young fellows Were wont to hook a ride upon when not loaded, with an Irish driver,. The rattledebang and snakes to your poor old worse than 'the proverbial dance. Many times wss I Garden City house, con and Market streets, an about 14 years old. I many times ran errands for Gen. James A. •'Mulligan, who commanded the Irish brigade In the civil war, and who upon dying ut- tered those historic words, "Lay me down and save the flag." His monu- ment Is near the gate In Calvary. He Saw the King. My memory now goes back to stand- ing in South Water street and Mich Igan avenue, When the Prince of Wales â€"the tote King Edward of England- came out on the balcony of the old Richmond house and mads bis bow to ths crowd and spoko a few words. I call to mind the schools I attended, the Dearborn and Scammon and'the teachers, A. D. Sturtevant and M. B. Gleason. The latter,was my Sunday school teacher also, and 1 still have the bible he presented to me for good deportment and perfect lesions In 186S. We lived at first in the old town, corner of Peoria and Lake â- treets. Beyond Ann street west was nothing but the old Bull's Head and prairie mostly under water In the rainy season. My father many a tlms took ms In bis buggy, and with gun and dogs would drive half a mile still west and In a couple of hours would bring down a dozen prairie chickens, while I held the horse, and be on foot, but a stone's throw away and get back borne for dinner. In Politics, Too. We young men took part in the Lin- coln political campaign in 1860, and I Joined the wide awakes and marched night after night through- old and mnddy Chicago yelling: "Oh Ltnkcum boys away. â€"â€"~r- Oh Llnkcum boys away! Oh won't you come and Jine the wide Jlne the w'lde awakes, down In llllnoy!" Finally I am earrled back to the scones of the big Chicago fire, when on Monday morning, Oct. 10, 1871, I had to cross the Twelfth street bridge to reach Michigan avenue, corner of Washington street/where 1 found my office bad burned at 4 a. m. Then I SI III ILLINOIS 111116 COAL The Proportion Is Larger Than Any Other State in the Union ;Frank- lin Leads. 64 MILLIONS IN 1914 Value of the Product Passed That Mark for the ^ Past Year. ... Despite some strikes and other rath* er unfavorable conditions In 1814, the production of coal for Illinois during the year was 67,688,197 short tdtas, valued at 164,693,629. according to figures compiled by the United States Geological survey In co-operation with the State Geological survey of Illi- nois. This tonnage la well up with the figures of the years of largest pro- duction in Illinois. The supply of la- bor waa plentiful-and transportation facilities were adequate throughout the year except during the biennial shutdown, which has now become a regular Incident of the eprlng months O* the "even" year In !!Hso!s coa! m!n ing, which began as usual on April 1, 1114, and lasted In certain districts from thirty to sixty days. •light Decline In Pries. An Increase In value per ton was recorded In nearly one-third of the coal producing counties In Illinois dur- ing 1914, but the average value per ton for the state declined slightlyâ€" from |1.14 in 1918 to $1.18 in 1914. There are more coal-mining counties In Illinois than In any other state in the union, half of the 108 counties be- ing, or,having been, producers. The two most important producing coun- ties are In the southern part of the J^iil "J^SH^^JSSLJ^^uttatt- a grosser thickness than in the northern districts. The principal Increase In HOW ROUTE OF THE FRENCH MISSIONARIES Following the Trail of Mar- quette and Joliet Down the Mississippi â€"â€" THE TWO PORTAGES Fox-Wisconsin and Chicago- Des Haines Important Connecting links. <%® the coal production of Illinois In 1914 was in Franklin county, where a large amount of development has taken place during the last four years, ad- vancing the county from eighth place in 1810 to first In 1914. In 1914 this county produced 7,311,209 tons of coal, an Increase over 1918 of 1,229,107 tons, br over 16 per cent. mice iiuu uumuu in i ». um. •««. »j Machinery Increases Production. Witnessed the destruction of beautiful/ The increased efficiency in the labor Terrace Row and saw Orrington Lunt, P. F. W. Peek and others, turned into the street without saving anything worth whtte, ananmch pitiful. sights as I beheld only excelled those I saw In my civil war experience. Rods Through Ruins. The following dayâ€"Tuesdayâ€"I pro- cured a horse In Bvanston and rode down and through the whole burned district, horseback, and I remarked sotto voce, "Chicago will never rise from her ashes," and now comparing Chicago of 1852 with 40,000 to 60,000 people to the Chicago of today of 3, 000,000 inhabitants I think what an astonishing transformation in 63 years, and I' have witnessed It all Magnificent! Sublime!! CAN YOU PRONOUNCE IT? A new foot disease * known ss on darteritls obliterans has made Its ap- pearance In New York, and twenty eight cases of it are under treatment In the hospital for deformities and Joint diseases. The disease, physl clsns said today, Is frequently mis taken for rheumatism or gout. It Is believed to have come from Russia, Poland and parts of Austria, virtually the only countries where It has be- come common. The disease Is characterised by the cutting off of the blood supply by a fibrous exudate In the, veins. Physl clans of the hospital are seeking the cause. Injections of salt solution have been found to give relief. Where Was WafeaT â- peneer Leigh Hughes, M. P., telle of the following amusing experience He was once passing the new war of- fice building In Whitehall when hie companion, a Scotchman, pointing to th« emblematic devices engraved over the door. Indicated the Scotch thistle. the English lion, and the Irish harp. "Where to the emblem of Walesr asked ale Mend. "Oh.- Mr. Hughes replied, "I expect there to a leak In the roof.- I great grandson of the Scout He ordered Capt. R. K. landing the Chicago light to plant a cannon on each Of the court house square load- ed with ball, ready to clean out the rabble tt they made any attempt to attack the court banes. As It wee seme ef the poHee ahwsmss>81isrr re- volvers, and the rioters fired sack, but they Net Flattering to White The negroes of Guinea have little belief la a state of future punishment of them who live on the sea- hoorever. bettove the* the un» are still more and they are turned Into white At a hen was la newly-hatched at employed In the eoal mines of Illinois continued In 1914 and was due chiefly to the larger production obtained by the use of mining machinery. In 191* tho average production per man in the Illinois coal mines was 724 tons for the year and 4.2 tons for esch working day, against 776 tons for the year and 4.1 tons for each day In 1918. The quantity of coal mined by machines increased from 32,630,665 tons, or 63 per cent of the total, in 1913, to 32,- 640,688 tons, or 66 per cent, In 1914. It Is gratifying to note the correspond- ing decrease In the coal shot off the solid. In 1912. the quantity of coal thus mined by powder In the mines Of Illinois wss 24,136,940 tons, or 40 per cent of the total; In 1913 that Item amounted to 20,469,189 tons, or 33 per cent Of the total, and 1914 It amounted to 18,862,240 tons, or 32 per cent of the total TEXA8 INCREASES SILVER OUTPUT. The output of Texas mines for 1914. as stated by Charles W. Henderson of ths United States Geological survey, amounted to 8234 In gold. 630,817 fine ounces of silver, 149,027 pounds of leed, 88,760 pounds of copper, and 216,- 461 pounds of sine, with a total value of 8318.787, which was slightly greater than the total value In 1913: These figures show a considerable Increase for sliver, a large decrease for sine, and smaller decreases for gold, copper and lead. The greater part of the output of silver came from the}Presidio silver mine and cyanide mill. In the Shatter district. Presidio county. Some silver, copper and sine were produced at Van Horn, Culberson county. The greater part of the lead and sine came from the Sierra Blsnca district. El Paao county. Unkind "See, darting," and Mrs. Justwed up for her husband's gass three mirrors arranged so aa to give aa many reflections. "I can get a triple view of myself!" "Humph!" gurgled her brute of a man, struggling with his col Jar. "Ton to be quite popular with your* !"â€"Judges Quarterly. pled all the other fruit in the orchard lust to see what etJ Star. ByJ. Seymour Currsy. The two great systems of drainage between tho valleys of the St Law- lence and tho Mississippi are sepa- rated by certain boundaries of elevat- ed land, one portion of which will be described in this article. To the west of Lake Michigan this "height of land" extends very Irregularly from northern Wisconsin to ths south of the lake, on one side of which die stream* flow towards ths lake, and thence towards the St. Lawrepce. while beyond the height of land the waters flew, towards the Mississippi and so on to the Gulf of Mexico. The western watershed of Lake Michigan of which we shall speak In this aril cle, la, generally speaking, quite nar- row, and as there are no marked ele- vations throughout the summit of the divide there occur many places where portages could be made from the upper courses of streams flowing east into those flowing towards the west This fact waa perceived by ths early explorers, and portages were sought for and readily found across which canoes could be carried, and thus water transportation extended Into distant and unknown regions. The Jollet-Marquette Route When Joliet and Marquette set out from Green Bay In 1673 to discover the Mississippi (which no white man had as yet ever set eyes upon since Do Soto had crossed It more than a thousand miles to the south In 1641), the first stage of their Journey wss up the Fox river of Wisconsin. Re- sides the two intrepid leaders there were five Frenchmen In the party traveling In two bark canoes. Guided by friendly Indians, they left toe Fox river near the present city ePPortage In Wisconsin, and carried their canoes overland a mile or two, and embarked on the Wisconsin river, which thoy afterwards fo«md flowed Into the'Mississippi. This was hot the first time that white men had crossed this portage, for Nicollet had penetrated as far as this point thirty-five years before, but he had turned back before reaching the Great river, thus narrowly miss- ing Its discovery, which was reserved for Joliet and his party. The Indians had often told their white friends, whom they met at Gren Bay and other missionary stations of the French, about the ureat river, but it had gen orally been understood that they were referring to the sea, and this led to the conjecture, then generally ac cepted as true, that an outlet to the Pacific ocean would thus be found The Pacific coast was fairly well known at that time, derived from the accounts of Spanish voyagers Marquette's Journal. Both Joliet and Marquette kept Journals during their travels, but JoUet lost hla before reaching Mon treal on his return. Marquette's, how- ever, was preserved and Is printed In the "Jesuit Relations." After the friendly Indlsns had guided the party across the portage they turned back, for Indians do not willingly travel very far into the unknown, as they are usually filled with apprehension of mischief from hostile tribes. They could not. however, writes Marquette,, "sufficiently express their astonish- ment at the eight of seven French men, alone in two canoes, daring to undertake so extraordinary and so hazardous an expedition." After a voyage of one week the party came In sight of the lordly Mississippi and realised that the great discovery had been made. Aa the canoes entered the great river Marquette wrote to hie journal that ho beheld It "with a Joy that I cannot express." Then follow* fa Marquette's account many interesting dusSsfJMIuui of scenery and natural history, and how the party followed the course of the river for the next thirty days until they had arrived at tho mouth of the Arkansas. On the 17th Of July. 1673, they began their return Journey, which thejr naturally .found. to_ be much more difficult than the voyage deem stream. They passed the mouth of the Ohio and of the Missouri and, arriving at the mouth of the Illinois. they learned from the Indians that there existed a shorter route to the north by ascending that river and con- ttoatog their Journey by wuj^gf Lake Michigan. They decided, therefore, to leave the what waa to They Marquette, "with its ptooM waters, ito md its rich to nana state of Illinois." Pound Frisndly Indiana. On the opposite bank of the river, where the town of UOea now stands, they found a village of Illinois teutons consisting of seventy-four cabins. The travelers were well received hero, and on their departure n ohtof and s^am- ber of young men of toe village Jotaed tbe party for the purpose of guiding them to Lake Michigan, though It was not known by that name to them. A few miles above they passed the place where the present city of Ottawa la situated, and where the Fox river ef Illinois flows Into the Illinois river from tho north. The course of tho river waa now almost directly east and west, and ths travelers could not fail to notice the ranges of bluffs flanking the bottom lands through which ths m meanders In Its flow. This broad channel once earrled a mighty volume of water from Lake Michigan to tho Mississippi st a time whan the glaciers were subsiding, and tho toko level waa some thirty or forty feet higher than in historic times. LaSalle In later years described the country ss "so beautiful and so fertile, so free from forests, and so well supplied with prairies, brooks and rivers, eo abound- ing in fish, game and venison, that one can find there in plenty and with little trouble all that la needed for the sup- port of flourishing colonies." The travelers soon arrived at the ecaSufeiiuw of the uespiaines ana me Kankakee rivers which here, at a point some forty-five miles from Lake Michigan, unite to form the Illinois river. Under the guidance of their Indian friends they chose the route by wsy of the Desplalnes as the shortest one to ths lake. On reaching the place where the portage lato the wa- ters tributary to Lake Michigan was to be made their Indian guides aided them In carrying their canoes over the dry land Intervening, and placed them In the South Branch of the Chi- cago river. They thus passed ths sum- mit of the great divide between the two greet water systems of the west. Here their Indian friends left them while they made their wsy down the five miles that yet Intervened before they would reach Lake Michigan. Mar- quette refers to the lake as the "Lake of tbe Illinois," readily Identifying It with that great body of water which they knew by that name along Its northern portion. When Nicollet In 1684 had entered Green Bay he thus discovered Lake Michigan, so fei as Its northern portion was concerned, and which he knew extended tar to the south, but Jollet's party were the first white men to enter and navigate Its waters throughout Its vast south- ern extension. During" the month of September the travelers. passed up the west shoro of the lake and reached the point from which they had started, after an absence of four months, with- out an accident of any kind, and hav- ing covered a distance of about 2,600 miles. Both of tbe leaders of this ex- pedition, which had been authorised by the French government, were young menâ€"Joliet 28 and Marquette 86. Both were stimulated with an ar- dent desire to gain a view of the great river so often described by the In- dians, and throughout the four months of their "renowned voyage" acted to- gether harmoniously, and brilliantly accomplished the took they had been sent to perform. We have thus briefly traced the pas- sage of two of the portages from the Lake Michigan watershed connecting with that of the Gulf of Mexicoâ€"the one known as "the Fox-Wisconsin por- tage," and the other, "the Desplalnes- Chicago portage." The latter was ex- clusively the discovery of Joliet, and to him as the leader of the party, and to to his as its historian, must bo for that of tho of the present city of of Lake ipsmtho s few yeare liter and opened a new route between the lake and the Mississippi. which^wlU be deecribed to another article._______,\, A PERSONAL LITTER To tho Ptoses ef the feerth dJhorO. 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